Fruit Cake - Page 2

hstout1143 · 12-15-2012, 10:31 PM

That's because you haven't had a "GOOD" fruit cake. The cake that I got was from a local bakery and it's really moist and delicious. I've had the ones from the drug store or grocery store and they were dry and disgusting. Find a good one, it will change your mind

JUNKKING · 12-15-2012, 11:18 PM

Carver I can see how that would be good with the brandy but not liking to taste any alcohol in any food I do like to put some coffee in a deep saucer and then the fruit cake on top of it and let it soak in the coffee. I will keep adding coffee until it stops sucking it in and then its belly away for the fruit cake!

JoeV · 12-16-2012, 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by hstout1143

That's because you haven't had a "GOOD" fruit cake. The cake that I got was from a local bakery and it's really moist and delicious. I've had the ones from the drug store or grocery store and they were dry and disgusting. Find a good one, it will change your mind

The same can be said for a lot of foods that people refuse to eat after the first bite. If it's poorly or cheaply made, then it deserves to be bashed. But for heaven's sake, at least try a bite of the foods you hate every once in awhile, you just might be surprised. I used to hate lamb until my Croatian neighbor made it, and I fell in love with it from then on. Some foods you just won't like period, but give the rest at least one more chance. I love GOOD fruitcake, and loathe BAD fruitcake. Not everyone's mom is a good cook.

carver · 12-16-2012, 08:14 AM

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Originally Posted by JUNKKING

Carver I can see how that would be good with the brandy but not liking to taste any alcohol in any food I do like to put some coffee in a deep saucer and then the fruit cake on top of it and let it soak in the coffee. I will keep adding coffee until it stops sucking it in and then its belly away for the fruit cake!

I like your style! That does sound good! When I was kid growing up we sometimes had biscuts, and gravy, for breakfast. I loved to soak a biscut in the coffee before eating it!

whirley · 12-16-2012, 09:01 AM

My wife bakes fruit cakes every year. Soaks them in home made hard cider. Keeps them moist. Mostly raisins, candied fruit and pecans. No candied orange peel. Taste good at any time. I make HARD cider from our apples! Tests about 20%.
VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

76Highboy · 12-16-2012, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by JoeV

The same can be said for a lot of foods that people refuse to eat after the first bite. If it's poorly or cheaply made, then it deserves to be bashed. But for heaven's sake, at least try a bite of the foods you hate every once in awhile, you just might be surprised. I used to hate lamb until my Croatian neighbor made it, and I fell in love with it from then on. Some foods you just won't like period, but give the rest at least one more chance. I love GOOD fruitcake, and loathe BAD fruitcake. Not everyone's mom is a good cook.

OK big Joe, here's something that can be done with fruitcake.

http://www.zug.com/live/83259/Can-a-...et-Part-2.html

76Highboy · 12-16-2012, 10:19 AM

I think that in the depression era people ate fruitcake because it was a cheap meal. Then again, maybe that is why people were so darned depressed.

carver · 12-16-2012, 10:21 AM

double post. Sorry!

Roadkil · 12-17-2012, 11:45 AM

What a waste. Taking good alcohol and wasting it on a fruit cake. Alcohol abuse is what it is I tell ya!

wv hillbilly · 12-17-2012, 11:46 AM

this is last years picture, but it will look the same in a day or so

the fruit cake has 8 different type of nuts, 2 different type of apples,rasins, cherries,and candied fruit

soundguy · 12-17-2012, 12:34 PM

i just got back to work after going to the post office and I see my mom has stopepd by and left some fruitcake cookies and gingerbread she baked. YUM

carver · 12-17-2012, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by wv hillbilly

this is last years picture, but it will look the same in a day or so

the fruit cake has 8 different type of nuts, 2 different type of apples,rasins, cherries,and candied fruit

Man What a spread! If I lived any where near you I would weigh around 600 lbs, and my blood sugar would read some where around 800! Do blood sugar meters go that high?

JUNKKING · 12-17-2012, 08:59 PM

Yeah Carver they go that high and we would be hanging at Hillbillys together. Those cakes look excellent! Lots of time in the kitchen for Mrs Hillbilly.

76Highboy · 12-17-2012, 09:07 PM

You guys are disqusting, and obviously enjoying this thread. Oh well, at least I know I can send a fruitcake to someone on this forum if need be.

wv hillbilly · 12-18-2012, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by 76Highboy

You guys are disqusting, and obviously enjoying this thread. Oh well, at least I know I can send a fruitcake to someone on this forum if need be.

come on Highboy, try it , you'll like it

76Highboy · 12-18-2012, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by wv hillbilly

come on Highboy, try it , you'll like it

I did try it, many times. Both of my grandmothers made it when I was young and they made me eat it. Since being an adult I have tried it and I think it is disqusting. You can have mine though Hillbilly.

76Highboy · 12-18-2012, 06:59 AM

I hear that 68 and Norahc like fruitcake's.

soundguy · 12-18-2012, 07:10 AM

has anyone ever heard of a brownie cake?

68c15 · 12-18-2012, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by 76Highboy

I hear that 68 and Norahc like fruitcake's.

as a matter of fact, we do like you

norahc · 12-18-2012, 09:55 AM

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as a matter of fact, we do like you

I don't know about that. Tolerate might be a better word.

12-15-2012, 10:31 PM	#26
hstout1143 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: California Contributor Posts: 1,730	Re: Fruit Cake That's because you haven't had a "GOOD" fruit cake. The cake that I got was from a local bakery and it's really moist and delicious. I've had the ones from the drug store or grocery store and they were dry and disgusting. Find a good one, it will change your mind __________________ NRA Life Member Kids that hunt and fish don't mug old ladies. "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan "Deo Duce, Ferro Comitante", With God as my leader and my sword as my companion

12-15-2012, 11:18 PM	#27
JUNKKING Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Just East of Pittsburgh PA Contributor Posts: 1,758	Re: Fruit Cake Carver I can see how that would be good with the brandy but not liking to taste any alcohol in any food I do like to put some coffee in a deep saucer and then the fruit cake on top of it and let it soak in the coffee. I will keep adding coffee until it stops sucking it in and then its belly away for the fruit cake! __________________ Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and again!

12-16-2012, 09:01 AM	#30
whirley V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Contributor Posts: 457	Re: Fruit Cake My wife bakes fruit cakes every year. Soaks them in home made hard cider. Keeps them moist. Mostly raisins, candied fruit and pecans. No candied orange peel. Taste good at any time. I make HARD cider from our apples! Tests about 20%. VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

12-16-2012, 10:19 AM	#32
76Highboy Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Meridian, Idaho Contributor Posts: 6,922	Re: Fruit Cake I think that in the depression era people ate fruitcake because it was a cheap meal. Then again, maybe that is why people were so darned depressed.

12-16-2012, 10:21 AM	#33
carver TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: DAV, Deep in the Pineywoods of East Texas, just west of Shreveport, LA Contributor Posts: 11,219	Re: Fruit Cake double post. Sorry! __________________ Y'all be safe now, ya hear! Lamentations Chapter 5: 1. Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. 5. Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest. 16. The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! 21. Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. Last edited by carver; 12-16-2012 at 10:23 AM..

12-17-2012, 11:45 AM	#34
Roadkil V.I.P. Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: SW Ohio Posts: 183	Re: Fruit Cake What a waste. Taking good alcohol and wasting it on a fruit cake. Alcohol abuse is what it is I tell ya!

12-17-2012, 11:46 AM	#35
wv hillbilly Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: mountains of wv. Posts: 2,016	Re: Fruit Cake this is last years picture, but it will look the same in a day or so the fruit cake has 8 different type of nuts, 2 different type of apples,rasins, cherries,and candied fruit Last edited by wv hillbilly; 12-17-2012 at 11:50 AM..

12-17-2012, 12:34 PM	#36
soundguy Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: florida Contributor Posts: 4,405	Re: Fruit Cake i just got back to work after going to the post office and I see my mom has stopepd by and left some fruitcake cookies and gingerbread she baked. YUM

12-17-2012, 08:59 PM	#38
JUNKKING Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Just East of Pittsburgh PA Contributor Posts: 1,758	Re: Fruit Cake Yeah Carver they go that high and we would be hanging at Hillbillys together. Those cakes look excellent! Lots of time in the kitchen for Mrs Hillbilly. __________________ Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and again!

12-17-2012, 09:07 PM	#39
76Highboy Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Meridian, Idaho Contributor Posts: 6,922	Re: Fruit Cake You guys are disqusting, and obviously enjoying this thread. Oh well, at least I know I can send a fruitcake to someone on this forum if need be.

12-18-2012, 06:59 AM	#42
76Highboy Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Meridian, Idaho Contributor Posts: 6,922	Re: Fruit Cake I hear that 68 and Norahc like fruitcake's.

12-18-2012, 07:10 AM	#43
soundguy Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: florida Contributor Posts: 4,405	Re: Fruit Cake has anyone ever heard of a brownie cake?